Another year is coming to a close, and, just like last year, scientists have made an amazing number of dinosaur discoveries.

T hat’s right, dinosaurs do still exist, and they are everywhere—in the form of birds. That adorable little sparrow on your ...

The end of the dinosaurs is well known: A giant asteroid came down and wiped them out. But how did they get their start? "We know a lot about the life and extinction of the dinosaurs, but not so ...

But in real life, scientists have discovered a doppelgänger: Zuul crurivastator, a new genus and species of dinosaur with movie-monster looks. Well protectedOsteoderms—bony armor plates—cover ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

Dinosaurs first appeared 230 million years ago. The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, triggering a horrific mass ...

They combined these discoveries with similar analysis of regurgitated material, as well as prehistoric ... produced not by a dinosaur, but by a large, semi-aquatic reptile known as a Paleorhinus.

"The first dinosaur relative in the area, Silesaurus, was an opportunistic little thing that ate bugs, fish and plants. Some of the insects were amazingly well preserved," Qvarnström said.

For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by ... vomit called regurgitalites – from among the earliest known dinosaurs, analyzing how their comparatively flexible diet ...

Determining how dinosaurs achieved worldwide domination has been difficult because of a scarcity of well-preserved early ... fossilized feces and vomit, known as bromalites. In a paper published ...